Etymograph

English

bucculent

Bucculent comes from Latin bucculentus ‘having full or fat cheeks, or a large mouth’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEbucculentus1‘having full or fat cheeks, or a large mouth’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1823bucculent1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English bucculent
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1823, The British Critic: “[…] and instead of the Amazonian Trull, or the…”.

Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEbucculentusWiktionary, English bucculent‘having full or fat cheeks, or a large mouth’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1823bucculentWiktionary, English bucculent. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1823, The British Critic: “[…] and instead of the Amazonian Trull, or the…”

Linked words

through Latin beccus ‘beak’

beck, beak, 9 more

through Latin bucca ‘cheek’

buckle, bouche, 7 more

Today it means

adj Possessing a wide mouth.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “bucculent”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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